What’s streaming on MUBI
April 2026
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (Documentary) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI starting April 3, 2026
Dir. Julia Loktev, 2024
October–December 2021. Vladimir Putin has marked out Russian dissidents as “foreign agents”. Journalists at TV Rain, an independent news channel based in Moscow, have been labeled as such; so has the station. Investigating an authoritarian regime, the reporters contend with hostile conditions.In MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I – LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, what begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and the journalists are all forced into exile. The film offers a front row seat to how authoritarianism impacts the lives of those who resist, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day. The documentary follows Alesya Marokhovskaya, Anna Nemzer, Elena Kostyuchenko, Irina Dolinina, Ksenia Mironova, Olga Churakova and Sonya Groysman.
The film won Best Documentary from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, as well as at the Gotham Awards and the Film Independent Spirit Awards. It premiered at the New York Film Festival before its international debut at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2025.
MY FATHER’S SHADOW
My Father’s Shadow (Drama) – Streaming exclusively on April 10, 2026
Dir. Akinola Davies Jr., 2025
Winner of Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards, MY FATHER’S SHADOW is a poetic, tender portrait of father–son bonds unfolding against the political turbulence of 1993 Lagos. Set over the course of a single day in and around the Nigerian metropolis, Folarin (Sopé Dìrísù, Slow Horses, Gangs of London) and his young sons Akin (Godwin Egbo) and Remi (Chibuike Marvellous Egbo) reckon with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis. As shadows grow long across Lagos and details of Folarin’s life come to light, the strained nature of his connection to Akin and Remi becomes increasingly clear.The multi‑award‑winning film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Caméra d’Or Special Mention, and was later selected as the UK’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards®.
ATROPIA
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Atropia (Drama) – Streaming exclusively on MUBI on April 17, 2026
Dir. Hailey Gates, 2025
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance. ATROPIA is writer-director Hailey Gates’ debut feature, and was produced by Luca Guadagnino. The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2025 and stars Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner, Chloë Sevigny and Tim Heidecker.
SOUND OF FALLING
Sound of Falling (Drama) – Streaming exclusively on April 24, 2026
Dir. Mascha Schilinski, 2025
SOUND OF FALLING tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger.Sensual and sensory, this transcendent, awe-inducing film invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?
SOUND OF FALLING premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Jury Prize. The film also won the Silver Frog at the 2025 EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival in the Main Competition, honoured for its cinematography by Fabian Gamper. It was a major contender at the 2026 European Film Awards, earning 8 nominations including Best European Film, Director, and Screenwriter. At the 2025 Gotham Film Awards, it received 2 nominations for Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay.
SLEEPER HITS
Uncompromising, misunderstood, or just plain weird, some films miss out on their moment. But overlook complicated shoots, hostile criticism, and falling short at the box office, and these films might just be classics-in-waiting. Perhaps the time has finally come to say: This is great cinema.
Showgirls (Drama, LGBTQ+, Erotica, Cult)- Streaming on April 1, 2026
Dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1995
Nomi, a young drifter, arrives in Vegas to become a dancer. She gets a job stripping at one of the lesser joints on the strip, but soon catches the eye of talent scouts who hire the performers for a casino. She works her way into the cast, and eventually sets her sights on taking the starring role.
Clifford (Comedy) – Streaming on April 1, 2026
Dir. Paul Flaherty, 1994
Pint-size Clifford is a handful, and his parents do the best they can to deal with him. But when one of his outbursts prompts a plane they’re flying on to land mid-flight, his parents put their foot down.
UHF (Comedy) – Streaming on April 1, 2026
Dir. Jay Levey, 1989
Accident-prone and forgetful, George Newman gets fired from another job. When his uncle hires him to manage Channel 62—a local TV station on the brink of bankruptcy—George swaps out the reruns for a raft of weird and wonderful live shows, and, against the odds, turns the station’s fortunes around.
State of Grace (Drama, Thriller, Romance) – Streaming on April 1, 2026
Dir. Phil Joanou, 1990
Terry returns to New York’s Hell’s Kitchen after a long absence, falling back in with Irish mobsters Jackie and Frankie, and their sister, Kathleen, an old flame. Jackie’s increasingly erratic behaviour threatens a new alliance with the Italian mafia. Terry, meanwhile, harbors a perilous secret.
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (Drama, Romance) – Streaming on April 1, 2026 (Pictured)
Dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding. The characters at the heart of these three stories combine into a telling exploration into the complexities of relationships, told through coincidences that happen to women in love. WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlin International Film Festival in 2021, and premiered at Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival the same year. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s films PASSION and ASAKO I & II are now streaming.
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